World War

World War

World War II consisted of two powers: the allied forces, and the Axis powers. The allied forces is broken down into many parts, but “The Big Three” also known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United States of America, and the United Kingdom. The rest are Poland, China, and France. The Axis powers are also into two sections which consisted of their own parts. The Major Axis consisted of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan. The Minor powers included Hungary Romania, Slovak republic, Bulgaria, and Yugoslavia.

After the World War II, kinship between the United States and the Soviet Union, who had joined together against Nazi Germany, became conflict. This period between the mid-1940’s until 1980 was named The Cold War. Being that the United States represented democracy and capitalism. On the other hand, the Soviet represented Communism. The higher allies in United States were Britain, France, West Germany. Japan, and Canada. In the Soviet alliance consisted of mainly the countries of Eastern Europe, and during the Cold War Cuba and China. Any other country that hadn’t been in restraint with the powers were known as nonaligned nations.

The Soviet was motivated by the thought that if it amplified its influence through the world and that its enlargement of its hostile interest to American interest. Like wise, American policies was created to ensure the control of Communism. A belligerent attitude of the United States regarding development of nations under the area of influence was portrayed in the mid 1940’s through the mid 1950’s as the ideology of Containment. Leading to governments around the world to destroy the spread of Communism. The Soviet tried work countries that already had converted to Communism, which in turn lead to many wars through Africa, Asia, Central America, and South America.